Audio from online server

Hi, I'm working on a music-related LC project that plays audio that is delivered from a server. Works great, especially with fast start checked on .movs. The project has moved on to the point that we are now in negotiations to license music from a major media corporation that will be served to

Re: Error Codes

Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:40:26 PM, you wrote: > On 3/20/12 12:37 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: >> OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive >> text? You could just let the engine do the heavy lifting: put line tErrorNumber of the scriptExecutionErrors -- -Mark Wied

Re: MySQL standalone issues

On Mar 20, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote: > Next I copied the button containing the working script to my existing app and > saved that as a standalone. This time it didn't open the database. Instead it > returned the answer error "Unable to connect to the database. revdberr, > invalid

Re: [TEASER] Dropbox Support Almost Ready

Hi Andre, How's your Dropbox library going? Looking through the archives for info about adding Dropbox functionality to an Android app, I hit upon this thread and your explanation at: http://andregarzia.clarify-it.com/d/earp64 Clicking around a little further, I discovered your projects page

Re: LiveCode 5.5

I'm not sure if the full posting was on this list, but they did say that they are immediately working on 5.5.1, to come out as soon as it can, and that will support the new SDK and Xcode. On Mar 20, 2012, at 7:24 PM, TERRY HASS wrote: > Thanks for sharing ANY insight into what RunRev has in mi

Re: accessing colorized script

I've done it but the IDE has to be involved... sqb Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

Re: MySQL standalone issues

Pete, I investigated further. I found something strange. I copied the simple script below from lessons.runrev.com and put it in a button on a brand new stack. Saved as a standalone and it worked as designed. Next I copied the button containing the working script to my existing app and saved th

LiveCode 5.5

Hello List, I read this list almost everyday, but this is only the second time I have posted here. I guess I feel like I am still a newbie compared to everybody else. After reading the LiveCode 5.5 iOS release notes, I think I am missing something very basic concerning the recent LiveCode upgra

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the

I filed bug 10109 on this. It's open for comments and of course the rev team can act on it or punt as they see fit. But I think it does need fixing. I can't see any way now in which the current implementation makes sense, even as an accidental side-effect. It's rather something to have to be aware

RE: answer dlog box changes Mac full screen mode

Thanks. I'll give that a go! Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/answer-dlog-box-changes-Mac-full-screen-mode-tp4490058p4490632.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: MySQL standalone issues

Hi Sieg, Doesn't seem like storing data in external files should be a problem, especially since the app has been working for so long, although maybe there's a different path to the files needed for the standalone than in the IDE. Still think there could be clues in a sample of the failing code alo

Re: Text formatting for a slider

I made an attempt at 'fixing' Smart properties a while back, but found it's not as simple as it might seem to be. Three objects created for each property in real time made to scroll together and some other trickery going on. It's a project I do want to tackle one of these days. On 19 March 2012 15

Re: accessing colorized script

That will invert the colors of the previous lines to their polar opposites. But only if they have a trailing CR. ;-) Bob > You mean like, "line 2 to -1 of" ...oh never mind. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://ww

Re: accessing colorized script

Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:44:08 PM, you wrote: > On 3/20/12 3:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> Jacque- >> >> Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: >> _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 >> >>> Ooooh! >> >> You can also use char

Re: accessing colorized script

On 3/20/12 3:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! You can also use chars instead of lines. You mean like, "line 2 to -1 of" ...oh never mind. -- Jacqueli

Re: MySQL standalone issues

Thanks, Pete. That gives me a clue. The LC app of primary concern to me has such a long history it started out as a HyperCard stack (and formerly interfaced with a local database, not MySQL). There are instances in which it temporarily saves data to text files to get around HyperCard's 30,000-ch

Re: Error Codes

On 3/20/12 12:37 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? There's a plugin that Richard Gaskin and I developed. I've been trying to upload it to RevOnline for some time but it won't let me. Until that gets fixed, anyone who wants it can g

Re: accessing colorized script

Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: >> _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of >> field 1 > Ooooh! You can also use chars instead of lines. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-liveco

Re: accessing colorized script

On 3/20/12 2:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Peter M. Brigham, MD writes: I'm looking for something like a revColorizeScript handler _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com Hyper

RE: answer dlog box changes Mac full screen mode

set the decorations of stack "myStack" to empty... should take the titleBar away, would that help ? > Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:20:36 -0700 > From: lvhd...@gmail.com > To: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com > Subject: answer dlog box changes Mac full screen mode > > Hi all. > > Found a quirk on M

Re: accessing colorized script

Alex Tweedly writes: > > Could you use the one from GLX ? >(I don't know how stand alone it is, or how hard it might be to > extract from its context). > It's pretty involved and takes a lot of setup. And the colorization scheme isn't the same as the IDE. The code is all there in the ope

Re: MySQL standalone issues

Hi Sieg, I don't know of such an article but people on this list can probably help if you give use a bit more detail about what the queries are and what error messages you are getting. There shouldn't be any SQL reasons for things not working in a standalone if they worked in the IDE so I suspect

Re: accessing colorized script

Peter M. Brigham, MD writes: > I'm looking for something like a revColorizeScript handler _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 -- Mark Wieder ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.co

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

I'm happy to see in the newsletter announcement of LC 5.5 I just received that it retains "Save As" as a file menu option. Maybe Apple will ban LC from use on desktops because of that, who knows. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:43 PM, J. Landman G

answer dlog box changes Mac full screen mode

Hi all. Found a quirk on MacOSX and wonder if you have a workaround. Scenario: Standalone (made with LC 4.6.4) and running on Mac Lion is set to full screen, so there is not titlebar when it opens. However, if app uses the answer command, after dismissing that dlog box the Mac puts a titlebar acr

Re: Text formatting for a slider

I wonder what is wrong with this: put the propertyNames of scrollbar "ZLIDE" into fld "PROPPS" ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http:/

MySQL standalone issues

Can anyone point me to an article or tutorial that walks thru all the considerations for making MySQL database functionality work in a standalone? I have created several apps that query a MySQL database. They work fine in the IDE but I have never been able to get them to run as standalones, from

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

On 03/20/2012 08:48 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Me?? I never replied to this subject. @Bob: you have never been rude to me; unless, of course, I am so goofy as to have misunderstood the subtleties of what you are saying . . . :) The person who wrote this "Did you fall asleep before you reached the

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

I think it's unlikely anything about this behavior will change no matter what bug report is filed. There's the backward compatibility issue you raised (although I personally think that is usually a cop out) but you could also argue that what happens is by design. I'm thinking your hope for a "mor

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

Me?? I never replied to this subject. On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Richmond wrote: > Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? > > :/D > > You ought to think a wee bit before you decide to be rude. > > Thunderbird cut off the end of your subject line (I found out what it

RE: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :/D You ought to think a wee bit before you decide to be rude. Thunderbird cut off the end of your subject line (I found out what it was by accessing the Use-List via Firefox). --

Re: Text formatting for a slider

Being bloody-minded, I created a stack containing a slider in Livecode, saved the thing, and opened it in Metacard . . . Metacard let me set all the colorProps of the slider . . . NONE showed up in the actual slider in Metacard, NOR did they on reopening in Livecode, EXCEPT setting the INK to

Re: Geometry Manager Problem

So I wrote my own resizeStack handlers. Two of the effected stacks work fine - I was moving 3 buttons and a graphic and sizing a field. The 3rd stack has a dataGrid with about 250 rows in it. I move a couple of buttons, a graphic and then size the dataGrid height. Resizing on this stack is *ver

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

On 03/20/2012 08:10 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :D Pretty well. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

RE: Error Codes

Mark, THANK YOU The "of card 1" was what I was missing. Again I'm guilty of reading the dictionary too fast. Thanks for your time! Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailt

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :D ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and mana

Re: accessing colorized script

Could you use the one from GLX ? (I don't know how stand alone it is, or how hard it might be to extract from its context). -- Alex. On 20/03/2012 15:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from

Re: Text formatting for a slider

On 03/19/2012 11:57 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: Pete, Yes, my feeling exactly. It looks like there was a conscious effort to omit the foregroundColor for the slider (and scollbar as well). I was worried that it was to be deprecated. (I wasn't concerned about ALL the properties being in the Inspect

Re: Error Codes

Hi Ralph, One possibility is to use the LiveCodeErrors app for iPhone. You can find this in the iTunes store. Another possibility is to use this http://qery.us/1w7 library (shareware). There is also quite some information about this available on the mailing list http://qery.us/1w8 and there y

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

On 20/03/2012 17:17, Pete wrote: So I wouldn't vote for a bug report that asked for lines to behave like characters in this respect. I would vote for a bug report that asked for this situation to be caught as an error (although I think it would have to be a run time error not compile time since

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

And I might add, you may or may not get a trailing CR in a filter result depending on whether or not the whole chunk ended in a CR, regardless of whether or not the filter results CONTAIN the last line with the trailing CR. I think the overriding principle now is that once a command or function

AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?

Yes so do I today too, but after I've seen first impressions of Win8, I'm thinking of where the journey goes to... Tiemo > > No, you're absolutely right - the main reason I haven't had to do this is > that 99.5% of my development is on desktop apps, so I'm more used to > resizing windows and repo

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

On 03/20/2012 12:08 AM, rand valentine wrote: Hi, guys. Here’s another Unicode-related question. How can I use a Unicode keyboard to type in a Livecode field? I’m working with an American Indian language (called Hocąk), and I need to be able to type characters such as š, ǧ and ąą. I can p

Error Codes

OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? The only reference I can find is: put line errorcode of the cErrorsList of stack "revErrorDisplay" I tried for example put line 353 of the cErrorsList of stack "revErrorDisplay" and all I get is empty. Thanks Ralph DiMol

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

On 03/20/2012 12:09 AM, Tim Jones wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: What language is this article in? " "Save As" is dying. The Lion API establishes these changes." ?? "Now because of these changes, the traditional "Save As" command no longer makes since." Since?

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

I'd like to chime in here again on a couple of things. First, I'm sticking by my assertion that a range with an end point less than a start point is not a logical structure in a general sense. I'm well aware the the selectedChunk uses that mechanism to indicate the position of the insertion point

Re: how to resize icons when resizing objects?

On Mar 20, 2012, at 3:09 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Thanks Ken, you say, you usually don't resize buttons with the stack. (I > haven't done it yet either) > I thought it could perhaps be a nice feature for tablet PCs (Windows 8), > that you have bigger button icons, when increasing the window

Re: MySQL joined select

Thanks for the replie!!! :), I'll make some research. On 20 March 2012 18:38, Pete wrote: > Hi Ken, > Good catch on the multiple FROM clauses, not sure what that's all about. > Probably just needs to qualify the columns in the condition with the table > name. > > The SELECT statement has a lot

Re: MySQL joined select

Hi Ken, Good catch on the multiple FROM clauses, not sure what that's all about. Probably just needs to qualify the columns in the condition with the table name. The SELECT statement has a lot of problems in general. There's no JOIN statement to link table1 and table2 together, for example. Tha

Re: MySQL joined select

Hi Marek, I think you're confusing what you get back from the SELECT statement with what you display to your users - they are two different things. I'm going to assume that you need all the columns you name in your SELECT statement for some processing reasons but that doesn't mean you have to show

Re: accessing colorized script

Confounded new fangled engines! You can't work on 'em these days! Bob On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:46 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: >> Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the >> script editor without opening the editor and cop

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

If I may be so bold, remember the discussion about the filter command returning different results depending on whether or not the chunk ended in a CR or not? Some argued that that was how it ought to behave. Are we now saying that consistency is the order of the day? So let it be written! So let

Re: accessing colorized script

On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying the text? I don't think you can any more, the colorization is done by the engine. There used to be a script for it in older

Re: MySQL joined select

On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: > > So the question in SQL is: > > Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: > SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number

Re: MySQL joined select

Any columns you define in the select statement will be in the returned data. You do not have to retrieve a column to use it in the select statement. This works: select zip from addresses where state = "CA" Besides that, I do not know what you mean by "hide". Hide from what? Your user interface

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

Folks- Maybe I've missed this, but has a bug been filed? I can't think of a use case where the current behavior is preferred, and I can't see how changing it to something more consistent and er... correct... would break any existing code. I think this is something the rev team should fix, or at le

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

Thanks, Matthias. I'll try that. John has been really busy, so I was hoping to get an answer from the masses first. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

Hi Mike, i made a mistake in my last post. Try to delete uMobGUIGeometry-960x640. That is the correct set. Am 20.03.2012 um 15:53 schrieb Matthias Rebbe: > Hi Mike, > > the data is stored in custom properties of the card. > For each object there is one custom property and for each > orientat

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

Hi Mike, the data is stored in custom properties of the card. For each object there is one custom property and for each orientation/resolution there is a set e.g. uMobGUIGeometry-640x960. Try to delete the set uMobGUIGeometry-640x960. This deletes all settings for ipad landscape. But please ma

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

On Mar 20, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Am 20.03.2012 um 14:40 schrieb Peter M. Brigham, MD: > >> On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay >>> wrote: >>> >> ... >> Jacque's point still holds, though -- th

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

Ugh. Well I just (foolishly) tried this with another stack as well, and in this one it's iPad Portrait that seems to break. Hmm. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,

accessing colorized script

Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying the text? I have a handler that puts a section of a stack script into a field -- pretty straightforward to just extract the relevant plain text from the script. But it would

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

Every one of the other layouts went smoothly - switch to the layout setting, move and resize everything, repeat. However when I went to iPad Landscape all of a sudden the objects crew substantially and the fonts shrunk substantially. It is really dramatic when comparing to iPad Portrait. In the

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

I understand that this is what the engine returns when the selection is empty, and I'm prepared to accept it as a necessary method for the engine to describe an empty insertion point, but just because the engine reports char 13 to 12 doesn't mean the engine should accept setting the selection to ch

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

With MobGUI you should be able to choose a setting, then arrange things to look nice, and choose the next setting, etc. When you go to the iPad Landscape for the first time, it's unlikely to know what layout you want. If you manually fix everything, can you then go in and out of that size ok?

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

Hi Peter, Am 20.03.2012 um 14:40 schrieb Peter M. Brigham, MD: > On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay >> wrote: >> > ... > Jacque's point still holds, though -- the implementation of this form using > lines instead of chars is *

Re: Text formatting for a slider

Stephen, I have to go back to version 4 to get SmartProperties to work. Even then it is a bit quirky. Pity. Speaking of Rinaldi, as RR rushes headlong into a frenetic future, it would be nice if there were an historian amongst us to keep track of the past. For example: Where are Scott Rainey,

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > >> I think it should behave the same way character selections do. A negative >> range has been a valid construct since HyperCard and is, actually, the only >> way to set the insertion po

[MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

I have one of several apps that I'm using MG to create the layouts for the other iOS geometries. Everything is going fine until I select iPad Landscape. Then all of a sudden font sizes shrink and objects get bigger - the navBar, buttons, etc. all grew, but the fonts in all of those objects shrunk.

Re: Serious Question about the list...

The mailing lists predate the forum by many years. Some people who used the mailing list complained they preferred a forum, so RunRev obliged and provided the forum. It's not that one discussion mechanism is officially sanctioned by RunRev, although I suspect new users find the forum before the f

Re: MySQL joined select

Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number <> 414 AND (car_nr > truck_nr) from transport; and show only result o

AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?

Thanks Ken, you say, you usually don't resize buttons with the stack. (I haven't done it yet either) I thought it could perhaps be a nice feature for tablet PCs (Windows 8), that you have bigger button icons, when increasing the window size to fullscreen to be better accessible with finger handling

AW: AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?

Thanks Jacqueline for your useful hints Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von J. Landman Gay > Gesendet: Montag, 19. März 2012 18:37 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: AW: how to